1900 - 1910Maria Montessori- Montessori Method,

sensory training, teaching the whole child - 1909

http://www.montessori.edu/maria.html http://www.montessori.edu/

Edward Lee Thorndike – Connectionism – 1910

http://neuron-ai.tuke.sk/NCS/VOL1/P3_html/node10.htmlhttp://www.lifecircles-inc.com/Learningtheories/behaviorism/Thorndike.html

1919 - 1920James Watson – Behaviorism – 1913

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dh13wa.html

http://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/2543/Watson-John-B-1878-1958.html

John Dewey – Social Constructivism http://www.pragmatism.org/genealogy/columbia.htm http://www.johndewey.org/Welcome.html

1920 - 1930Sidney Pressey , teaching machine– 1924

http://www.coe.uh.edu/courses/cuin6373/idhistory/pressey.html http://newsroom-magazine.com/tag/sidney-pressey/

W. H. Kilpatrick, project method implemented, 1927

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/4954/ http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JITE/v34n3/Knoll.html

1930 - 1940Ralph W. Tyler, Eight Year Plan – 1933

http://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/2517/Tyler-Ralph-W-1902-1994.html

http://wredu.com/~wriles/Tyler.html

Lev Vygotsky , Zone of Proximal Development

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_of_proximal_development

http://www.newfoundations.com/GALLERY/Vygotsky.html

1940 - 1950B. F. Skinner, Theory of Knowledge

http://www.newfoundations.com/GALLERY/Skinner.html

Edgar Dale, Cone of Experience http://rapidbi.com/created/Coneofexperience-dale.html

http://itls.usu.edu/wiki/foundations-2008/brians-class-famous-people/edgar-dale

1950 - 1960Abraham Maslow, Humanism

http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/maslow.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bhmasl.html

Benjamin Bloom, Bloom’s Taxonomy –1956http://oaks.nvg.org/taxonomy-bloom.htmlhttp://nwlink.com/~Donclark/hrd/bloom.html

1960 - 1970B.F. Skinner, Behaviorism, Operant

Conditioninghttp://www.sntp.net/behaviorism/skinner.htm http://www.nndb.com/people/297/000022231/

Jerome Bruner, Discovery Learning – 1960The Process of Education

http://www.infed.org/thinkers/bruner.htm http://www.newfoundations.com/GALLERY/Bruner.html

1970 - 1980Robert Mager, Criterion Reference

Instruction, 1975

http://my-ecoach.com/project.php?id=12152&project_step=28469

http://tip.psychology.org/mager.html

Robert Gagne, Theory of Learning – Task Analysis

http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/articles/gagnesevents/ http://www.jstor.org/pss/3345479

1980 - 1990David Kolb, Experiential Learning Model – http://www.infed.org/biblio/b-explrn.htm http://www.dkolb.org/

Howard Gardner – 1983 Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple

Intelligences

http://my-ecoach.com/project.php?id=12152&project_step=28710

http://www.indiana.edu/~intell/gardner.shtml

1990 - 2000Marie Clay, Reading Recovery – 1992http://www.readingrecovery.org/reading_recovery/facts/index.asphttp://www.marieclaytrust.com/Marie_Clay_Trust/Biography.html

Charles Reigeluth , Elaboration Theory – 1994http://www.lifecircles-inc.com/Learningtheories/reigeluth.html

2000 - 2010Richard Allington, top reading researcher

http://teachersread.net/About.htm

http://www.learner.org/workshops/teachreading35/session2/index.html

Patricia Cunningham, Four Block literacy program

http://www.four-blocks.com/ http://www.wfu.edu/education/fourblocks/